Read, Percy, Private, 14799, 9th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
Disembarked for service 29th July 1915
Born Swadlincote, Derbyshire
Enlisted Leicester
Resided Swadlincote
Killed in action 14th July 1916 aged 22
Son of Alfred and Ada Read, of 11, Regent St., Church Gresley, Burton-on-Trent.
Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial

1911 Census
A coal miner odd worker
Son of Alfred, a furnace iron founder, and Ada Read, of Portland Cottages, 39, Midland Road, Swadlincote, Derbyshire

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